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World Diabetes Day 2015
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Diabetes Day 2015

...awareness amidst concern over an escalating diabetes epidemic. Find out more about diabetes care here...Learn more about diabetes care The following video tracks introduce various aspects of a patient’s diabetes annual check-up. This material forms part of the Open University course Diabetes care. Listen to this podcast on type 1 diabetes Try a free diabetes course...
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Business development skills for apprentices
Education & Development

Business development skills for apprentices

...'hard' skills (such as project management or IT applications), The Open University is here to help with our collection of free courses...[Business development skills for apprentices] Try our FREE courses in an array of subjects to support you. IT training Time and priority management Email etiquette Presentation skills Introduction to project management Business...
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Explore flexible online learning
Education & Development

Explore flexible online learning

...courses and qualifications. OpenLearn is the home of free online learning offered by the OU. There are hundreds of flexible courses that players can combine with a busy training and match schedule. ...[PFA and OU logos] Whatever your ambition, start by exploring the range of content to find a topic that inspires you. As pioneers of distance learning for over 50 years,...
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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...courses now make up 20% of the Toolkit’s total educational material. Similar schemes were also very successful in the UK Nations: My World of Work in Scotland; Working Wales in Wales; and NIDirect in Northern Ireland. Over 206,000 have accessed OpenLearn via these schemes. I have lost my job as a result of the pandemic and therefore can't afford to pay for another...
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Soft skills training
Money & Business

Soft skills training

...courses from OpenLearn, endorsed by Google...This content is associated with The Open University Open Degree qualification. The phrase ‘soft skills’ incorporates a wide variety of personality traits, communication and people skills, social attitudes and emotional intelligence. These qualities (also known as ‘core skills’) are increasingly important for success in...
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Crime fiction
Languages

Crime fiction

...courses, articles, video and audio resources, and interactive activities, free to study and available to start right away...Find out about The Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Crime fiction is the best-selling literary genre in Great Britain and other European countries. People’s reasons for reading, watching and listening to crime...
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Department for Work & Pensions
Education & Development

Department for Work & Pensions

...with leading providers of online education, the DWP are promoting resources that will benefit learners everywhere. They have selected these OpenLearn courses to enhance your digital and employability skills, so you can prepare more effectively to achieve your career aspirations. There are also courses to help you improve your functional English and Mathematics skills....
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Happy halloween!
History & The Arts

Happy halloween!

...courses all about Halloween, death, fear, and the paranormal. Pretty ghoul, huh?...Fresh from the crypt: our latest Halloween articles The origins of Halloween and what it means now Discover zombie psychology and the apocalypse Transcript Dig into death and dying Unearth project fear and the science behind it Transcript Delve into witchcraft, wizards and clowns Gothic and...
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